Southwestern fare

Today Thom and I took advantage of D.C.’s Restaurant Week (which ends tomorrow!), and had an early dinner at Red Sage, a great Southwestern restaurant on the corner of 14th and F Streets downtown. The Restaurant Week deal is a three-course dinner for $30.04 (or lunch for $20.04). Red Sage ain’t your typical Tex-Mex, no señor. Both the atmosphere and menu are delectable, refined. My selections were: a Caesar salad, the Roasted Red-Chile Pecan-Crusted Chicken Breast (described in the menu thusly: “smoked chile-honey glazed chicken breast, with plantain and black-bean empanadas, wilted Swiss chard, and pico de gallo in a shallot sauce”)–is your mouth watering yet?–and for dessert, a trio of flavors of ice cream. Ah, everything was so very delicious.

Afterwards, we browsed for a while at the Borders across the street, just as it was beginning to snow. A lovely evening all around.